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William Strampel, former Dean of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University attends a video arraigned in 54-B District Court Tuesday, March 27, 2018 in East Lansing, Mich.(Photo: Robert Killips | Lansing State Journal)Buy Photo

EAST LANSING - The Michigan Attorney General's Office has moved to admit more evidence about former MSU dean William Strampel's alleged sexual misconduct.

Two women reached out to the AG's Office investigators in the days after Strampel was charged and said they had experiences similar to those detailed in an affidavit filed in support of charges against the former dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

On Tuesday, the AG's Office filed a motion seeking to admit the testimony of those two women, who are identified only as Witness 1 and Witness 2, during Strampel's preliminary hearing, which has been set for June.

Included in the court filings are portions of several police reports related to the potential witnesses and the women the AG's Office has identified as victims. In one of the reports, the father of one of the women told investigators that after Strampel stepped down as dean, he called MSU Provost June Youatt and detailed the sexual comments Strampel had made to his daughter.

He then asked Youatt if what he said surprised her and, according to the police report, Youatt said none of it surprised her.

Messages were left seeking comment from Youatt and a university spokesperson.

Strampel, one of Larry Nassar's former bosses, was charged last month with felony misconduct in office and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with his interaction with students. He's charged with two additional misdemeanors related to his actions during and after a 2014 Title IX investigation of Nassar.

Nassar, 54, formerly of Holt, is serving a 60-year federal prison sentence on child pornography and was sentenced to decades in prison on sexual assault charges. He sexually assaulted hundreds of women and girls over more than 20 years.

One of the women identified as a victim in the case told investigators she met with Strampel in December and he appeared to be preoccupied with Nassar. The meeting would have taken place the day after Nassar's federal sentencing.

Strampel asked the woman how he was supposed to know what a person did in their basement and how she would like having a camera in the room during a doctor visit, according to a police report.

Strampel's charges were the first announced as part of the AG's Office investigation of sexual misconduct at MSU. He stepped down from his role as dean in December and is now on medical leave.

His attorney, who couldn't be reached for comment, previously said his client denied the allegations detailed in court records connected to his charges.

New information about Strampel

The testimony the AG's Office has moved to admit will support the evidence that Strampel "acted with sexual intent as a motive" during his time as dean when he propositioned female students for sex and groped two female students.

"Dean Strampel is not an amusing, bawdy elder statesman," prosecutors wrote. "Rather, he is an ugly predator who used his office to harm young women."

Witness 2 will testify that she met Strampel several times in 2006 after failing to be admitted into MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine, according to court records.

He told her she should become a clinical skills model. She agreed, she told investigators, and Strampel took her to a private clinical room on MSU's campus. They were alone when he had her undress and then performed a breast and pelvic exam on her, which included him putting his fingers in her vagina, she told investigators.

He also made a comment about the fact that she did not have pubic hair, a comment he also made to the other potential witness on a separate occasion, according to court records.

Strampel also called the woman in to be a clinical skills model for a medical student he said was uncomfortable performing exams on women, and during the exam Strampel made inappropriate jokes, she told investigators. He paid her, in cash, she added, and he later said he'd admit her into MSU's medical school despite a test score lower than usually accepted.

The second witness prosecutors want to call during the preliminary hearing was a Central Michigan University student in 2002 when Strampel recruited her to work as a "clinical skills model" and said she would be paid $100 an hour to be naked during a full exam and $50 for vital testing, according to court records.

She participated 10 times, she told investigators, and it included "a breast examination, an anal examination that included the penetration of the anus, a pelvic examination that penetrated the vagina" and all were done in front of a small group of medical students.

After the last examination, Strampel took the woman out to dinner and "told her that he became sexually excited while performing the examination, that it 'turned him on,' and that he was 'beginning to get hard,'" prosecutors wrote.

She stopped working as a clinical skills model after that, she told investigators.